On Loops in Inflation II: IR Effects in Single Clock Inflation

Details On Loops in Inflation II: IR Effects in Single Clock Inflation On Loops in Inflation II: IR Effects in Single Clock Inflation

2012-03-28

arxiv.org/abs/1203.6354v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

13 pages, 1 figure

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In single clock models of inflation the coupling between modes of very different scales does not have any significant dynamical effect during inflation. It leads to interesting projection effects. Larger and smaller modes change the relation between the scale a mode of interest will appear in the post-inflationary universe and will also change the time of horizon crossing of that mode. We argue that there are no infrared projection effects in physical questions, that there are no effects from modes of longer wavelength than the one of interest. These potential effects cancel when computing fluctuations as a function of physically measurable scales. Modes on scales smaller than the one of interest change the mapping between horizon crossing time and scale. The correction to the mapping computed in the absence of fluctuations is enhanced by a factor N_e, the number of e-folds of inflation between horizon crossing and reheating. The new mapping is stochastic in nature but its variance is not enhanced by N_e.

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